are far greater than physical harm or even death; the stakes are high—apostasy and its consequent, eternal damnation. Just because Paul took on a fiery tone, we should not assume that he hated the Galatians. Rather, as the sixteenth-century Reformed theologian Wolfgang Musculus once observed: When calling the erring churches of the faithful back to the right way, the apostle is not lacking the abundance of God’s grace any more than he lacked it when, by his preaching, he was calling unbelievers,